We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
SIMONE WEILArt is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
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The world is God’s language to us.
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Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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